Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle
# Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 6 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:

| World record | Paul Biedermann (GER) | 1:42.00 | Rome, Italy | 28 July 2009 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Commonwealth record | Ian Thorpe (AUS) | 1:44.06 | Fukuoka, Japan | 25 July 2001 |
| Games record | Ian Thorpe (AUS) | 1:44.71 | Manchester, United Kingdom | 31 July 2002 |

## Schedule

The schedule is as follows:

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

| Date | Time | Round |
| - | - | - |
| Thursday 6 April 2018 | 10:31 | Qualifying |
| Thursday 6 April 2018 | 19:56 | Final |

## Results

### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Duncan Scott | Scotland | 1:46.62 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | James Guy | England | 1:47.04 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 3 | Calum Jarvis | Wales | 1:47.08 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 4 | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 1:47.10 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 5 | Alexander Graham | Australia | 1:47.35 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 6 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:47.37 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 5 | Mack Horton | Australia | 1:47.89 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 5 | Stephen Milne | Scotland | 1:48.08 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 6 | Jordan Sloan | Northern Ireland | 1:48.16 | |
| 10 | 3 | 7 | Craig McLean | Scotland | 1:48.42 | |
| 11 | 3 | 3 | Nicholas Grainger | England | 1:48.72 | |
| 12 | 3 | 6 | Matthew Stanley | New Zealand | 1:48.75 | |
| 13 | 3 | 2 | Cameron Kurle | England | 1:48.96 | |
| 14 | 2 | 2 | Carson Olafson | Canada | 1:49.14 | |
| 15 | 2 | 7 | Wesley Roberts | Cook Islands | 1:49.35 | |
| 16 | 2 | 3 | Welson Sim | Malaysia | 1:49.58 | |
| 17 | 4 | 2 | Jeremy Bagshaw | Canada | 1:49.60 | |
| 18 | 4 | 1 | Eben Vorster | South Africa | 1:50.78 | |
| 19 | 4 | 7 | Samuel Belanger | Canada | 1:51.69 | |
| 20 | 3 | 1 | Alex Sobers | Barbados | 1:51.87 | |
| 21 | 2 | 8 | James Brown | Northern Ireland | 1:53.23 | |
| 22 | 2 | 1 | Mathieu Marquet | Mauritius | 1:53.27 | |
| 23 | 3 | 8 | Samuel Seghers | Papua New Guinea | 1:56.68 | |
| 24 | 4 | 8 | Constantinos Hadjittooulis | Cyprus | 1:58.36 | |
| 25 | 1 | 3 | Gregory Anodin | Mauritius | 1:58.92 | |
| 26 | 1 | 5 | Erico Cuna | Mozambique | 1:59.43 | |
| 27 | 1 | 6 | Dean Hoffman | Seychelles | 1:59.54 | |
| 28 | 1 | 4 | Stefano Mitchell | Antigua and Barbuda | 2:00.46 | |
| 29 | 1 | 7 | Aidan Carrol | Gibraltar | 2:07.82 | |
| 30 | 1 | 2 | Cruz Halbich | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 2:09.61 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | 6 | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 1:45.56 |
| | 1 | Mack Horton | Australia | 1:45.89 |
| | 4 | Duncan Scott | Scotland | 1:46.30 |
| 4 | 5 | James Guy | England | 1:46.40 |
| 5 | 3 | Calum Jarvis | Wales | 1:46.53 |
| 6 | 2 | Alexander Graham | Australia | 1:47.01 |
| 7 | 7 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:47.46 |
| 8 | 8 | Stephen Milne | Scotland | 1:48.52 |
